
NYPD Daily Blotter
Brooklyn
Cops are looking for the two thugs pictured who robbed a cabby at gunpoint in East New York, authorities said.
The two men entered the cab at about 4:45 a.m. on June 28 near Jerome Street and Linden Boulevard, with one of them pulling a gun.
The bandits demanded cash from the 36-year-old cabby and fled with an unknown sum of cash.
Manhattan
He remembered to wear purple gloves — but didn’t realize he’d be caught red-handed.
Cops released video footage from an East Village apartment that shows a thief ransacking the East 11th Street home at about 3:35 p.m. Monday.
The resident had installed a surveillance camera, which caught the suspect entering through the front door, making his way through the apartment and grabbing an iPad.
(View the video at NYPOST.COM)
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A brazen bandit wearing a ski mask pulled a gun on two workers opening up the NYC Check Express check-cashing business at 200 Water St. at 8 a.m. Tuesday, cops said.
The crook ordered the workers inside, tied one up, forced the other to open the safe, and made off with $150,000 cash.
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Freedom was short-lived for a ex-con who found himself back in cuffs yesterday after he failed in his attempt to knock over three Midtown banks, authorities said.
Leon Cole, 62, was caught by cops who spotted him leaving without loot from the third location, an Emigrant branch near Seventh Avenue and West 24th Street, police said.
He was arrested when the officers discovered in his pocket “the note that he used at the other two locations,” said Police Commissioner Ray Kelly.
Cole had been paroled just last Friday after serving just under two years on a robbery conviction.
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A serial bank robber was nabbed in the East Village after a teller recognized him as the man who had robbed the branch a week earlier, authorities said yesterday.
David Russell, 47, went into the Chase branch at The Bowery and East First Street at 10:22 a.m. Tuesday and passed a teller a demand note, police said.
The eagle-eyed employee recognized him from his earlier job and alerted a co-worker, who pressed an alarm button, according to law-enforcement sources.
The crook fled, but was grabbed by cops at Houston and Greene Streets, police said.
Russell later confessed to the attempted robbery of four bank branches in two hours on July 30, police said.
He was unsuccessful three times but walked away with more than $2,800 from the Chase branch that he tried to hit again Tuesday.
Russell, whose rap sheet lists 11 arrests going back to 1983, was hit with new charges of grand larceny, robbery and attempted robbery, records state.
The Bronx
Police are looking for two thugs who ambushed an elderly man unloading his car in a Parkchester parking lot, cops said.
The 78-year-old victim was in a parking lot on St. Raymonds Avenue at 4:30 p.m. on July 18 when the attackers ran up from behind, knocked him down and fled, police said.
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Transit cops busted a man carrying an illegal BB gun at the Westchester Square elevated-train station, authorities said.
Sgt. Reinaldo Colon and Police Officer Rafael Baez were conducting routine bag checks at the 6-train station when they spotted a man who appeared to be packing heat, cops said.
The officers searched Alexis Santillan, 25, found in his possession a 6mm BB gun tucked in his front pocket.
Santillan was charged with criminal possession of a weapon.
Queens
A sicko who exposed himself to a young girl in Elmhurst has been linked to two other sex-pervert cases, police said.
The creep was on Seabury Street Monday at 7:45 a.m. when he exposed himself to the 13-year-old girl and ran off, cops said.
He is believed to be the perv in the police sketch above who groped two 12-year-olds in November, cops said.
On Nov. 7 along 54th Avenue, he asked a girl for directions and lured her into his car, where he touched her over her clothing, police said.
On Nov. 25, he again asked a child for directions. When she said she could not be of assistance, he reached out and groped her, cops said.

